1st Edition
Negotiating Privilege and Identity in Educational Contexts
1. Making Privilege Visible 2. Meredith: Confidently Traveling with Anna Caron, Jenifer Goldman, Katie Griffin, Connie Jangro, Celeste Lattanzi, and Adele Priestley 3. Herman: A Scripted Life with Cynthia Garvin, Erika Johnson, Ethan Meigs, and Morgan Rublee 4. Kayla: Dribbling Toward the Goal with Adrienne Bowles, Jenifer Goldman, Celeste Lattanzi, Kate O’Callaghan, and Morgan Rublee 5. Marcus: On His Own with Courtney Erskine, Cynthia Garvin, Molly Hodson, Peggy Meyer, and Hannah O’Brien 6. Sarah: Alone in the Crowd with Ian Borthwick, Annie Chen, Kelsey Cromie, Andrew Rhoads, and Hillary Rowse 7. Leo: Uncertain Future, Certain Success with Annie Chen 8. Olive: Creating Her Own Space with Annie Chen 9. Jacob: Dancing Through Life with Kelsey Cromie 10. Negotiating Privilege 11. Transforming Self-Understandings with Kelsey Cromie
Biography
Adam Howard is associate professor of education at Colby College, USA. Prior to teaching at the college level, he was an English teacher at an independent high school. He is co-editor of Educating Elites: Class Privilege and Educational Advantage and author of Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling.
Aimee Polimeno is an undergraduate at Colby College in the graduating class of 2014. She is majoring in Psychology with a minor in Education. She is a research assistant for Professor Adam Howard in Colby’s Education Department.
Brianne Wheeler is an undergraduate student at Colby College, USA. She is majoring in Psychology with minors in Administrative Science and Human Development. She is a research assistant for Professor Adam Howard in Colby’s Education Department.
"Overall, the book uncovers some important findings in relation to identity construction and privileged youth. The collaborative, student- involved research is also to be applauded." - Elizabeth Silva, Teachers College Record, January 2015
"Privilege does not always know itself as such. A sense of place, social membership and entitlement obscure what it means for those who have no such defenses. Even the most sympathetic and insightful perspective that social science can create is obscured by what the social scientist or student cannot see, their own place in the hierarchy. The following chapters try valiantly to look past that obscurity, to look at what is so hard to examine, their own place in the larger world." – From the Foreword by Dorothy Allison, Award-Winning Writer, Scholar, and Activist
